[Sca-cooks] Cries of London

[Sandra Kisner]

>Thomas Morley <../literature/courtmusicians.html>  took the equivalent of a
>Renaissance tape recording of the market in a piece that is made up of the
>cries.*
>The words are:
>
><snip> Oyez! If any man or woman can tell any tidings of a grey
>mare, with a long mane and a short tail, she halts down right before, and is
>stark lame behind, and was lost this thirtieth day of February.

Interesting date...

>Ha' ye any corns on your feet or toes? Fine potatoes, fine.

Morley's dates are ~1557-1602.  Too bad the cry doesn't say "white 
potatoes" or "Indian potatoes" or some such.

Sandra